Francis Duggan Poems

Quite young and fit but his soul is almost dead
And his physique it has gone to his head
A gift to woman kind is how he feel
And sad to think his kind for some females hold appeal
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The first of October a beautiful day
And in the blue sky just a few specks of gray
And sunshine on the Parkland and on the park trees
And the warmth of Spring is in the freshening breeze,
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Amongst the great Universe Planet Earth seems small
In size like a marble is to a football
And though great deeds of great people we well may recall
We are not that really important at all.
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Just to keep on living from day to day
Most people are brave in their own sort of way
Just hanging in there when the going is tough
Survival for some it is quite hard enough
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With her i would share a bottle of wine
She who loves Nature is a friend of mine
She knows the name of each species of tree
Into the soul of Nature she can see.
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The Spring is in her prime now and the lovely marigold
Are blooming in the blackwood shade so lovely to behold
On a warm day in October close to thirty degrees
With the sun glowing in the blue sky and warmth in the breeze
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Killarney in Victoria a place that has a soul
The white waves on the sunlit beach how beautifully they roll
October at it's finest the sunshine in the sky
And the silver gulls are calling as above the waves they fly.
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Though from religious zealots of damnation we hear
Why should i fear death when there is nothing to fear
Save the thought of dying and the nothingness of death
And the thought of the pain one might feel before life's final breath.
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I'm not ashamed of my heritage though of it i am not proud
And i never wave a National flag when in a football crowd
The praises of those we see as heroes we very well may sing
But too much of patriotism is not a healthy thing
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'Tis said that Bangladesh and Holland will be covered by the sea
And that climate change and global warming will cause World-wide poverty
Yet the advice of climate experts we do never seem to heed
Our disrespect for Mother Nature to our own demise may lead
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